Persona Q Release Date Announced

Atlus has announced the release date for Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. The dungeon-crawling Persona game will be released exclusively on the Nintendo 3DS on the 25th of November, the Tuesday right before Thanksgiving.

Persona Q is not your typical Persona game as it draws inspiration from another Atlus franchise: Atrian Odyssey. While the game does feature characters from both Persona 3 and Persona 4, the exploration is pure Etrian Odyssey. Players will navigate dungeons in a first-person perspective while drawing their own maps of the dungeon using a grid-based map making system on the bottom screen. The game developers even consulted the Etrian Odyssey developers when creating the game.

This is the first Persona game to release on a Nintendo platform, but numbers released from Japan indicate that the game is already performing well. In its first week on sale, Persona Q sold nearly 200,000 units in Japan, taking the first place during its launch week.

Elia Pales owns pretty much every single product Nintendo puts out, and due to his impulsive tendencies, he also tends to purchase every gaming product put out in general. When not gaming, he’s probably running cross country or writing. He makes sure to take regular gaming breaks, though.